FORMER SUNFLOWER MOVEMENT participant Johanne Liou is to be deported from the US next month, facing charges related to drug trafficking and fraud. The arrest was conducted by ICE, with Taiwanese authorities stating that they requested Liou's extradition. Liou did not appear at the New Taipei District Prosecutors' Office in 2023, which resulted in charges against her.
This is not Liou's first run-in with the law, as Liou faced charges related to introducing women in the US to sex work in (…)

Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness among workers and peasants, against Dutch colonial rule. After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto's regime wrote the left out of the history books.
Review of Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia by Rianne Subijanto (Cornell University Press, 2025).
In Communication against Capital, Rianne Subijanto tells the story of how socialists in 1920s (…)